Whereas it stays to be seen when The Authority will probably be launched on the upcoming DC films schedule because it’s presently on the again burner, we’re solely a few month away from assembly one of many workforce’s members. María Gabriela de Faría is starring in James Gunn’s Superman as Angela Spica, a.okay.a. The Engineer, who’s working for Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor. Nevertheless, if de Faría has her manner, Angela and Luthor can be one thing a lot extra, and I’m hoping her want turns into canon within the DC Universe.
María Gabriela de Faría stopped by the most recent episode of the DC Studios Showcase podcast (which additionally included her co-star Edi Gathegi explaining how taking part in Mr. Terrific gave him a “redemption arc”) to debate her function as The Engineer within the 2025 film launch. After the actress went over the small print of Angela’s dynamic with Lex Luthor, particularly that she’s a “good individual at coronary heart” who’s ”extraordinarily damaged” and decides to assist him out together with his mission to rid Earth of “evil aliens” like Superman, she had this to say:
However then I additionally assume that they’ve a secret relationship, and I stored telling James [Gunn], like, ‘I really feel like they fuck!’ Lex is so severe, and he has this beautiful girlfriend that he treats terribly. So I’m like, what if, after hours, The Engineer will get actually imply with Lex and he loves it.
The girlfriend de Faría is referring to is Sara Sampaio’s Eve Teschmacher, who was beforehand performed by Valerie Perrine within the first two Christopher Reeve Superman films and Andrea Brooks within the Supergirl TV sequence. From what little we’ve seen of Sampaio’s Eve in previews and advertising, she appears obsessed along with her appears and taking selfies, and I wouldn’t be stunned in any respect if she has a facet gig going as an influencer whereas working as Lex Luthor’s assistant. That, after all, doesn’t excuse him mistreating her.
Unusually although, I see María Gabriela de Faría’s level about the way it’d make sense for Angela Spica and Lex Luthor to have an affair going. That’s to not say this dom/sub the Lethal Class alum envisioned wouldn’t be bizarre, however not less than it’d even be entertaining. It doesn’t sound like we’ll get any nod to this in Superman, but when Engineer and Luthor are paired collectively once more in one other undertaking, I’m crossing my fingers that James Gunn, who’s additionally co-president of DC Studios, makes this sexually-charged component of their relationship a part of the DCU’s official continuity.
The Engineer and Lex Luthor getting every kind of freaky should be left as much as the creativeness for now, however we’ll get to see the previous’s nanotech skills on show when Superman hits theaters on July 11. Her visually-dazzling enhancements will make her a formidable menace not simply to David Corenswet’s Man of Metal, but in addition Krypto the Superdog and the robots within the Fortress of Solitude, as seen in the newest Superman trailer.